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Summary: The beginning of any search for meaning
Review: I really enjoyed this book because it started me on my search for meaning. While I don't think this is the be all, end all of books about life's meaning, I think it's important as a starting point. I'd also love to meet any psychoanalyst who is practicing Frankl's technique. It sounds so interesting and so helpful. Looking at your own life to discover why you're unhappy in life. Read this book.
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Summary: Life's Meaning
Review: Man's Search for Meaning really helped me find what was true for my own life, and what I believed in. This novel put in very simple terms all the complex thoughts of life's meaning. This book has taught me that one has to find their own life source, or why one lives. Viktor Frankl shows you how to find what you're living for. He really reinforced the ideas I already had about my own life.
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Summary: How Frankl helped me
Review: Viktor Frankl uses his hellish experience in the concentration camps of World War II to illustrate how one must be pushed to the limit of their being to find out what they are truly capable of. He turns one of the darkest episodes in the history of the world into a strangely uplifting experience for the reader. Through the objective look at the behavior of man suffering the negative sublime, he is able to guide an individual to find the meaning to their own lives. Logotherapy is a key point in this book. Explained thoroughly in the book, logotherapy can be applied to everyone. This book helped me to understand my life in a way which I had not thought about before. I would highly recommend Man's Search for Meaning to anyone, especially those feeling like they need some kind of purpose in their lives.
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Summary: Hope in Suffering
Review: Viktor Emil Frankl, eminent psychiatrist and founder of logotherapy passed away on September 1997. A sadness swept through me as I heard of his death. "Man's Search for Meaning" was the very first book of his that I read, and along with many others who have read this best-seller I have been comforted with his simple but sagely advise: "[E]ven the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph." Dr. Frankl shall be remembered as one who gave humanity the courage to go through life's tumult and to endure suffering with dignity.
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Summary: Victor Frankl ,TheTwentieth Century's Finest Gift to History
Review: "Man's Search For Meaning" by Victor Frankl is a book which shouldn't even be allowed to be read by a lot of people. As I read some of the negative reviews here, I was reminded of the words of another well published fellow: "Don't cast your pearls before swine. They will trample your pearls beneath their feet, and then turn and and rend you". This little book was written and translated into English over fifty years ago by a man who went through the crucible of the Holocaust. Not only did he survive as an organism, but as a naked human spirit. He looked death and horror right square in the eye, not in a brave moment, but over the grind of years and DEFIED IT, WITH JUSTICE,AND MERCY, AND WALKING HUMBLY WITH AN ADEQUATE WHY! Having done so, he began to try to share his gift with a world of people in pain, and people in vacuum. He has passed on now, but his gift of understanding will THUNDER down through the centuries, and continue to be built upon. If we humans ever transcend the petty little dogs nipping at our heels, and the monsters that confront us with our worst nightmares, we shall do it with the gift of understanding he left us.
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Summary: An Essential book to understand the 20th century
Review: Essential,painful,awesome,ultimately uplifting.Another strong antidote to new-age fuzzines practiced by PBS snake oil hustlers. Real pain,actual expierence,astonishing,almost unbelievable horrors which led to logotherapy.Frankl, who passed away the same time as Mother theresa and Diana Spencer,recieved the least treatment in the press of the three.And may have had the greatest impact. A tour de force!A Masterpiece!
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Summary: Inspired
Review: Simply one of the most inspiring books I've ever read since his philosophy comes out of true experience and suffering. A beautiful story, in the very least.
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Summary: Pivotal...Landmark...Watershed...
Review: I wish I had read this book earlier in my life. And, I can see that this will be just the first time that I have read it--I am going to be reading this book at least once a year, I want to re-visit it frequently. It will be a classic for me. For me, the first power of this short book is his narrative of survival in the concentration camps. What he witnessed and reports has its own power, but when he compounds it with an interpretation, that is, a search for meaning, Frankl's book has resounding merit. The second power is his development and explication of logotherapy. Freud advanced the theory that it was sublimated urges that drove the individual; Adler advocated that it was the individual's will to power that moved one; but Frankl's logotherapy is a theory searching for meaning--life needs to be interpreted. The individual lives and suffers now and in the past, but for the future, striving to be a better person, one must find a meaning, a 'why,' in order to change. Frankl's psychotherapy school of thought, I'm sure, has its detractors. I don't care about that. What I care about is the singular wisdom, tested in the fire, of his narrative. My spirit and my soul are still reverberating.
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Summary: The next step
Review: The best statement in this book is "Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now".If I can do this I will have mastered the course. He leads me up to trying to find my meaning to my life, but lets me go from there. The next step is mine.
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Summary: Your Purpose in Life
Review: As an entering Freshman into a University, it was nice to have read this book right off the get go. College is about finding yourself and helping the others around you. Throughout this book that is exactly what Victor Frankl did. He survived the Nazi death camp by caring about the men around him and helping them realize that they too have a future. Man lives for his future, not dwelling on his past. I would recomend this book to any senior in high school or higher. It is something that will really get to you, even the 'older' people. There is a reason that you are here...fate has a plan for you.
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